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Surgery Update 4:45 EDT

12:15 EDT Brian is in surgery. They are putting the screws into his spine and in the words of the nurse his “is doing very very well.”

2:30 EDT They are done with the screws and have begun the decompression procedure. It should be a couple more hours.

4:45 EDT They are done with the decompression and are doing the bone graft. Right now they are estimating he will be out of surgery around 6:30 though the scrub nurse will call me at 5:30 to give me an updated ETA. He is still doing fine.

5:45 EDT They are closing. Everything is fine and he is doing fine. Because it is a major incision it will take about an hour to close after which he will be moved to either a recovery room or (more likely) ICU. The surgeon will come give us an in person summation at that point and once the nurses get him cleaned up we should be able to see him.

7:00 EDT Still waiting

7:15 EDT: He is out of surgery. The two lumbar disks are totally gone (L2 and L3) and the vertebrae have been stabilized using some cage like thingy. All the bulging is gone. He’s quite sure there is no nerve damage. He only had 300 ccs of blood loss (which is very good) and didn’t need any transfusions. He did well. He’ll be in ICU recovering and hopefully they’ll be able to take him off the ventilator shortly. The MD will be back to take us to the ICU once Brian is all set up.

Moment of weirdness: after the doctor came, delivered his news and left my right boob leaked milk. I haven’t felt engorged all day, which I did when we spent the whole day here (and a shorter day at that) for tests but I have apparently have some milk ready to go.

I will update more as I have more information.

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